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ISIE News Volume 6 Issue 3 (September 2006) ISIE News Volume 6 Issue 3 (September 2006) Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology Gordon Research Conference participants. A Fantastic 5th content of the lectures or posters. This makes it Valerie Thomas ([email protected]) difficult to write much about the conference! Nev- Faye Duchin ([email protected]) ertheless, by using the titles of the lectures and posters, I can provide a hint of the conversations The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on In- and discussions, if you read between the lines. dustrial Ecology was held August 6-11, 2006 at Queens College of Oxford University. This was the The conference opened with keynote lectures fifth Industrial Ecology GRC, and this year there from Reid Lifset (Yale University) on challenges were more participants than ever before, more and opportunities in industrial ecology, and Roland students, more participants from industry, more Continued on page 2 participants from Asia. The poster sessions, orga- nized by Faye Duchin, were bigger and better than Inside.... ever, with a couple of extra poster boards needing René Kleijn offers an IE blog to be found at the last minute to make room for them all. Edgar Hertwich with new IE courses ISIE 2007 - Toronto! The Gordon Research Conferences are designed Brad Allenby in the President’s Corner as intense, off-the-record meetings for the ex- change of new and unpublished ideas. All the Web Reviews: Japanese sustainability, DfE, UNEP participants sign an agreement not to reveal the European patent application ISIE News 2 6/3- 2006 GRC continued Clift (University of Surrey) on climate change and energy policy – the UK story. The session on sustainable energy featured a lecture on “extreme energy efficiency” from Marilyn Brown (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), from Jamila Fattah (BP) on enabling “sustain- able mobility,” and from Jeffrey Siirola (Eastman Chemical Company) on “sustainability, stoichi- ometry and process systems engineering.” GRC attendees enjoy punting. Photo by Soheil Shayegh. The session on sustainability initiatives in industry to enter the UK. However, all the participants from included talks from Michael Bertolucci (Interface China, India, Russia, and Armenia needed visas, Research Corporation) on technical challenges and visa applications procedures were long and of sustainability at Interface, Johan Breukelaar cumbersome. Special thanks are due to Roland (Shell Chemicals Company) on challenges of Clift and to James Tansey and Steve Raynor (Ox- sustainability of petrochemicals, and Bill Malloch ford University) for writing and faxing and express (Nike) on lessons in applied sustainability. mailing many letters to support visa applications. The session on consumption in industrial ecology The winner of the student poster competition, or- included a talk by Carita Niemi and Klaus Hubacek ganized by the ISIE student chapter, was Monica (University of Leeds) on the role of social capital Vanegas (TU Berlin), with a poster on “Closing for sustainable consumption, Edgar Hertwich and the Loop of Non-Returnable Beverage Packages Glen Peters (Norwegian University of Science and in Mexico’s Brewery Industry.” As winner of the Technology) on household environmental impact competition, she presented a short lecture on her assessment, and Annika Carlsson-Kanyama (Royal work in the final session of the conference. Tied Institute of Technology), on interactive environ- for second place were Troy Hawkins (Carnegie mental information for changing pollutant intensi- Mellon University) with a poster on “Development ties of consumption. of a Mixed-Unit Input-Output Model for Life-Cycle Most of the participants were from western Eu- Assessment,” and Soumya Chatterjee (Kolkota rope or North America and did not require a visa Government College of Engineering) with a poster Continued on page 7 Scenes from the 2006 GRC in Oxford. Photos by Anthony Chiu. http://www.is4ie.org ISIE News 3 6/3- 2006 What’s New In ISIE? ISIE 2007—Toronto! Abstract Deadline 1 October http://www.isie.ca Be sure to submit your abstract for the 4th ISIE conference. The University of Toronto will host the meeting, 17-20 June 2007. Appropriately, the 4th conference will feature four primary themes: —Sustainable Social Metabolism —Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities —IE for Developing Countries —Transitions to Sustainability in a Complex World Meeting chairs are especially encouraging participation from industry and from the social sciences as well as more traditional technical perspectives. For more information visit http://www.isie.ca or call 416- 978-3481, toll-free: 1-888-233-8638. Jobs in IE ISIE Pursues “Links” with Other Groups Assistant, Associate or Full Professor of Sustain- Kristan Cockerill ([email protected]) able Global Enterprise, Cornell University, USA The ISIE Council is currently working on a tem- Corporate Partnerships Project Manager, Wal-Mart, plate for establishing formal relationships between USA ISIE and other organizations. At the August Coun- Assistant/Associate Professor of Management at cil meeting Marian Chertow presented a proposal Global Sustainable Enterprise, College of Business, from the Eco-Industrial Development Council Colorado State University, USA and Edgar Hertwich discussed a proposal from an informal group of sustainable consumption PostDoc-Position in Social Metabolism, Institute of researchers requesting that the Council consider Social Ecology, Austria creating “chapters” or “sections” for focused inter- Assistant/Associate Professor in Biomaterials, ests within the broader ISIE. ISIE Council mem- Bioprocessing and Biofuels, Iowa State University, bers agreed unanimously that creating linkages USA with both of these organizations is desirable. Over the next several months the details will be re- Sales Executive, Energy Innovations Solutions, viewed and the exact nature of our new relations USA finalized. Once the relationships are formalized, Haworth Chair in Integrated Design, University of there will be a section of the ISIE News dedicated Calgary, Canada to providing information from our partners! Ecologist/Restoration Biologist, Great Eastern Ecology, Inc., USA http://www.is4ie.org ISIE News 4 6/3- 2006 President’s Corner Industrializing Success the circular economy initiatives in China and South Brad Allenby ([email protected]) Korea. An outstanding example of this is the work that Ramesh Ramaswamy and Suren Erkman have For those fortunate enough to attend it, the latest done on the Resource Optimization Initiative in Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecol- Bangalore, India (http://www.roi-online.org). And ogy chaired by Valerie Thomas and recently held we can be open to, and actively seek out, oppor- in Oxford was quite a success. The presentations tunities to collaborate with informal groups and covered a wide variety of topics, and, illustrating formal institutions with similar interests. both the intellectual curiosity and the scope that At the institutional level, for example, we are characterize the field, included some fascinat- working on a number of possibilities which we ing and pathbreaking work on the social systems hope can strengthen industrial ecology both at behind production and consumption activities the intellectual and the organizational levels. In – and not just in developed countries. Much of one case, Marian Chertow of Yale and Peter Lowitt this research will be appearing in the Journal of of the Devens Enterprise Commission have been Industrial Ecology which continues to gain stature working with the Eco-Industrial Development both within and beyond the field. Council, a North American group interested in All good news. But it would be a serious mistake industrial symbiosis which has grown over several to become complacent or set in our ways, for the years from an informal network to an established Conference also suggested that the field of industrial ecology We can discuss our work, and is still very young and in some ways fragile. For one thing, highlight the Society and the JIE, as a society we remain fairly small, averaging around 350 at the conferences and venues to 400 members, which makes us (as well as the JIE, which is we participate in as part of our closely coupled to the state of the Society) vulnerable finan- professional activities. cially even if we are not currently at direct risk. This is, however, something that each of us can organization, and which wishes to explore formal help address. As individuals and in some cases affiliation with the Society. We are now explor- leaders of research organizations, for example, ing possible arrangements, and hope to be able we can encourage our associates and co-workers to come to an agreement shortly. In another to join our Society, and ask not only the libraries instance, we are working with an informal net- and research institutions we work with to become work of researchers on sustainable consumption institutional subscribers to the JIE, but also pur- with the mutual goal of providing them an insti- chase institutional subscriptions through our own tutional base, and further integrating issues of research groups. The JIE remains strikingly inex- consumption into the industrial ecology systems pensive for a scientific journal, making this easy approach. Here, Arnold Tukker (TNO), Edgar to do. We can discuss our work, and highlight the Hertwich (NTNU), and Atsushi Inaba (AIST) are to Society and the JIE, at the conferences and ven- be thanked, for they have been instrumental not ues we participate in as part of our professional only in developing sustainable consumption as an activities. More broadly, we can offer our skills important area of research, but identifying it as a to inform and support policy innovations, such as necessary focus for industrial ecology, and cham- Continued on page 5 http://www.is4ie.org ISIE News 5 6/3- 2006 President’s Corner continued The strength of our Society and the accomplishments of pioning it within our Society (http://www. score-network.org). Such initiatives are industrial ecology, ultimately welcome, and in these two cases we hope to create templates that make future link- rests on each of us. ages more convenient.
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